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Tuesday, 8 September 2026
AI at Yorkshire Sculpture Park furore
Hev & I enjoyed a fab day out at Yorkshire Sculpture Park at the weekend, seeing lots of marvellous art and enjoying summer weather (which we're constantly thinking will be the last day of the summer). As part of the day, I noticed there was AI art on show as a part of a show in one of the galleries. So I posted about it on Facebook. Oh dear.
I wrote:
This was not, of course the reason I posted it. I posted it to draw attention to AI art in places where I, possibly self-righteously, don't think it should be appearing. I also hoped Yorkshire Sculpture Park would be made aware of it and perhaps mark it as AI art. This is I think my position: AI art is a tool people will use, and we should be told when they have. I don't like it, but I can't stem its tide.
What I didn't want was a pile-on onto the artist. It turns out it was the artist's daughter that supplied the AI plinth art, and the artist posted on Instagram in response:
There has been a lot of unkindness about the display blocks for my exhibition at YSP. When I was creating this exhibition I experienced some very hard situations and had a complete breakdown. I’m still recovering now with anxiety and depression. The comments about ai has snowballed this morning. My daughter kindly helped with the display and I wanted them to look like vintage picture blocks. I am so sorry if I have offended anyone with the ai used (this was used only for the blocks and not the posters or anything else). Please accept my apologies and please no more hate comments. I will not use ai in my displays in the future. My actual work takes days to make with every intricate detail coming from my hands and heart.
Some of the posts on my Facebook did become quite vitriolic, and as ever the views are polarised. You can see the whole post and comments here:






















